I don't mean to be nosy, but I've now read quite a few references to Ambien CR and insomnia. Is it a big problem among posters? How do you combat insomina or sleep deprivation during meets and training and life? I'm not a big sleeper myself in terms of # hours, but I seem to know a lot of folks suffering from insomnia. Some are resigned to their fate; others are unhappy. What gives?
Sleep: my second favorite activity in the whole world.
Since age 25, I have had a varied sleep schedule due to off-shift work assignments. I sleep whenever and wherever I can find a horizontal surface.
Interestingly, one or two day's lack of sleep doesn't impact my swim meet performance as much as I would have thought. Last year, I was on-call and up most of the night before a 9 am Southwest flight to Baltimore for the Ancient Mariners' Albatross meet at 1 pm. Though I didn't feel so great, I swam basically the same speed as I had been the year before, when I had rested well. My 200 was about a second slower, but my 50 and 100 were spot-on. But if I have had a particularly bad week of call, it does take me several days to feel human. :snore:
Sleep: my second favorite activity in the whole world.
Since age 25, I have had a varied sleep schedule due to off-shift work assignments. I sleep whenever and wherever I can find a horizontal surface.
Interestingly, one or two day's lack of sleep doesn't impact my swim meet performance as much as I would have thought. Last year, I was on-call and up most of the night before a 9 am Southwest flight to Baltimore for the Ancient Mariners' Albatross meet at 1 pm. Though I didn't feel so great, I swam basically the same speed as I had been the year before, when I had rested well. My 200 was about a second slower, but my 50 and 100 were spot-on. But if I have had a particularly bad week of call, it does take me several days to feel human. :snore:
